OpenAI is apparely planning to eer the healthcare space. The AI gia is hiring people to develop a health-focused app for the company.
According to Business Insider, some sources close to OpenAI have told the publication that the creator of ChatGPT is considering developing health tools for its consumers. The AI company is evaluating several poteial opportunities, including building a personal health assista or health data aggregation platform.
OpenAI may release a health monitoring application
Tech gias like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have spe decades trying to give users more corol over their health data. Many of these efforts have failed. But investors and healthcare leaders seem to believe that OpenAI now has the right mix of capabilities to do just that.
OpenAI has recely been hiring to fulfill its big ambitions in healthcare. In June, the company hired Nate Gross, co-founder of public health technology company Doximity, to lead its health strategy, and the following moh added Ashley Alexander, formerly of Instagram, to the team as vice preside of health products.
At the HLTH conference in October, Gross noted the exte of OpenAI’s influence, saying ChatGPT has about 800 million active users each week, many of whom have medical questions. This expansion has caused the founders and investors of the health field to carefully pay atteion to the next move of OpenAI.
Several investors have told Business Insider that they believe OpenAI could tap io the problem of creating a personal health record for paties, a problem that has preveed the biggest tech companies from succeeding in this space for years.
Health data privacy laws and financial inceives cause people’s health information to remain fragmeed and separate among all the doctors they’ve ever seen. The personal health record, however, collects this information in one place and its ownership and manageme will be in the hands of the patie.
